About us

Muvizu is a website and a 3D animation application.
The Muvizu website is a place to meet fellow creatives and, using our site tools and downloadable 3D animation software, make your own movies or collaborate with
Muvizu members on larger projects.

The website and 3D application allow you to upload your creations straight to YouTube. The website contains other tools to complement your creative efforts.
There's forums and, to provide feedback, work you publish may be rated and commented on.

You must be at least 13 years old to join Muvizu as a full member with a regular account. However, if you are a teacher,
drama group leader or similar and some of your charges are under 13, you may open a "gatekeeper" account.

This will allow you to set up subsidiary accounts for them which you will administer and over which you will have full visibility and control.
These are invisible to anyone except members of your group or another gatekeeper group with which you have chosen to collaborate.

No. We’ll send out semi-regular emails that inform you about events on the website or changes to our software. We may also choose to tell you about competitions or other such things.
The emails will have an ‘ unsubscribe’ button anyway. We will never give your private details to anyone else. Read our full privacy policy for details.

Muvizu:Play

Muvizu:Play 3D software has been designed to allow anyone with a decent computer and graphics card to make animated videos without specialist training and equipment.
It’s powered by the Muvizu Animation Engine which, in turn, is built upon the world-leading Unreal Engine 3 from Epic Games.

By default Muvizu:Play creates videos with a subtle watermark. We think this is a reasonable thing to do, after all, we’re giving you a free licence to use our software.
So long as this watermark is present in your final footage then we’re happy for you to create, share and publish as many animations as you like.

In fact, we’d rather hope that you do some excellent things with Muvizu:Play.

Yes, but you need to pay us to remove the watermark. Muvizu:Play has a watermark removal feature which lets you render out watermark-free videos in standard- or high-definition.
Once you’ve paid for a Muvizu:Play+ licence then you’re free to use that footage in your commercial projects.
Muvizu:Play+ is a paid version of our software that allows you unlimited watermark-free HD rendering.

The maximum animation you can render out of Muvizu:Play is 20 minutes long. The maximum size of any video file you can render is 2Gb. This is a huge amount and most codecs will never reach that ceiling.
However, be very careful about selecting “uncompressed footage” from the rendering options. These files are HUGE and you’re at risk of reaching the 2Gb limit.

Muvizu on a Mac

Yes you can, but Muvizu:Play is built on the Unreal Engine 3 made by Epic Games and, when we started this project, there was no Mac OS X version.
A future Mac OS version of Muvizu:Play depends on a few hurdles, but it’s high on our to-do list.

For the time being, though, it's worth remembering that any Mac produced in the last few years uses Intel processors and, if it has adequate graphics capabilities,
you may use Mac's Boot Camp to set up a PC partition on your machine on to which you may install and run Muvizu:Play.

You may also use a virtualised/emulated PC environment using software such as VMware Fusion or Parallels - however, performance via these will be slower,
especially if you create complicated sets with many characters in a scene.

There are no size limits, other than that of the computer's memory. When you use video files for audio, Muvizu:Play abandons the video portion of the file and uses only the audio.
To use video files as images, your machine must have the right codec to process them.
Muvizu:Play will check which codecs are on your machine and present those as options when saving.

These terms describe the dimensions of videos produced by Muvizu:Play. The Make Video tool refers to “Frame size” and lists several options
for defining the shape and size (in pixels) of your final animation. These may be grouped into two broad
categories: standard-definition and high-definition. These are sometimes abbreviated to SD and HD.

Standard-definition video includes the following frame sizes: 720x576, 720x480, 640x360, 640x480, 480x360. Accordingly, high-definition video is 1280x720 pixels in size.
Muvizu Play+ can render at an even higher definition of 1920x1080

Standard-definition video is useful for test renders, online placement and small file sizes. High-defintion video should be used if you’re
striving for quality, clarity and broadcast-ready footage.

Help

In the first instance, check our Help section. This is full of useful information contributed by members and by our own testing, development and art teams.
For instance, under the tech help forum - you'll find troubleshooting advice on most common problems.

If you can't find what you need in the forums, email us at contact@muvizu.com and we'll try to help.

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Muvizu is easy to use 3D animation software that allows anyone to create high quality animations quickly and easily. Muvizu’s animation engine is ideal for storytellers, animators, teachers and businesses looking to engage, enchant and delight audiences with animated content.